Look Sports 1979…

The year 1979 came and went without any major changes in the nature of Look business, except that our sales did go south instead of north, and that Harrington and Pike were blaming Look, the parent company, and Beconta, the company providing us the logistics, for their lackluster sales results.

Some major remodeling in our office separated us a bit more from our landlord Beconta, but the relationship got tenser. Things weren’t going too well either for the sporting goods distributor; they lost Puma and decided to build a factory in Vermont to assemble the Dolomite ski boots sold in North America.

Some staff was added to our larger office, but failed to make a positive impact on the overall outcome either. Harrington and I were tolerating each other, while presumably Look France was watching whom of the two would survive, while it still was interviewing candidates for that elusive president job.

In the meantime, the rudderless organization wasn’t moving forward as it should have. That wasn’t the case for Salomon that had just introduced its new 727 binding, as it was now able to use Look’s expired patent on upper boot radius interface.

On the job side, the sole good news was that I inherited Blime’s automobile, a.k.a. the “Turtle Car”!